Star Forge Titan

Chapter 156: Lord of the Dead Country

It can be said that the owner of the house was murderous and the cockroaches were ready to take action.

Alvin has obtained the key props and is thinking about possible ways to use them.

On the other side, the hybrid insect beast was also approaching the target.

The thirteenth seal in the western district of Hades City.

This building with the number 13 also has a four-sided pyramid shape similar to a pyramid.

But unlike other buildings in the City of Hades, it is not a normal four-sided pyramid with a small top and a large bottom. Instead, it is an inverted pyramid with a large top and a small bottom. The end is about three meters away from the ground. The entire building is always in a hovering state, away from any other objects.

The hybrid insect-beast, covered in bright green and bright red blood, crawled towards the entrance. The wounds on its body were hideous and strange. They did not look like marks caused by swords or knives, but rather like the missing parts of the picture left by the scribbling of an eraser.

Arc-shaped gaps of varying sizes were scattered throughout the limbs and body of the hybrid insect-beast, from which two different colored body fluids continuously flowed.

Soon, these wounds were suppressed by the powerful vitality inherited from the ship-borne combat insects, but the lost blood and body tissues could not be replaced in a short time.

Behind the hybrid insect beast was a devastated scene. Traps and defensive golems driven by various magical mechanical devices were destroyed, and traces of distortion caused by erosion and transformation could be vaguely seen on the remaining fragments.

Relying on the spatial transfer ability awakened by the pure-color legacy poison within the gathered insect swarm, the hybrid insect beast has high mobility and penetrating attacks that surpass those of extraordinary beings of the same level. The irresistible distortion and assimilation effect of the pure-color power is like a strong pollution covering the entire body, allowing it to gain the upper hand and advantage in most cases.

The effect of the latter is even greater than that of the former, making it hard to believe that this is the residual power left after more than a thousand years of decay.

Even so, the various super-ancient defense mechanisms left over from the First Giant Kingdom still caused the monster to inevitably suffer serious injuries.

However, the severely wounded hybrid insect-beast didn't stop moving. Instead, its limbs, twisted by numerous wounds, began to move faster. It resembled a zombie that should have been dead but stubbornly persisted in its movements, or a severely damaged machine that still managed to function, presenting an extremely unsettling strangeness and weirdness.

After a long time, the hybrid insect beast finally passed the last section of the road and arrived right in front of the thirteenth seal.

Haw—

A sharp and piercing sound came out of the hybrid insect beast's mouth, and its figure became blurred.

The next moment, accompanied by a strange sound similar to the friction of glass, it suddenly appeared on the surface of the thirteenth seal.

Like the Heritage Administration, this building lacked any visible entrance. However, the hybrid insect-beast was prepared. It clung to the edge of the outer wall with its limbs, and a large amount of yellow-brown liquid began to secrete from its mouth. A familiar dark red mist of energy continuously rose from it.

The yellow-brown slime dripped downwards, making a hissing sound the moment it came into contact with an object. The dark red mist-like energy emitted from it gradually softened the building's exterior walls, which originally had a metallic texture.

One can vaguely see several short fleshy synapses slowly emerging from the wall.

The whole process was not fast, but the hybrid insect beast was obviously very patient.

It is like a spider coiled in its web, quietly and bloodthirstily waiting for the harvest season to arrive.

On the other side, Alvin picked up the black cube that fell to the ground with emotion. Who would have thought that this seemingly inconspicuous little thing was actually forged from celestial materials with ultra-high density, such as white dwarf fragments.

As expected of a Titan known as the Star Forger, he could even pull off something so outrageous. However, upon witnessing such a feat, the feeling he felt wasn't simply envy or longing; instead, he felt an urge to equal it, to even challenge the same or even more difficult tasks.

There's nothing strange about this...

With a slight smile, young people will never see their own limits, and men will always be young.

He is now stronger than he was a second ago, and his future self a second later will also be stronger than he is now.

Looking from the inside at the door sealed by forbidden magic, Alvin raised his hand and waved it, and the seal quickly emerged, with a large number of intricate glowing patterns covering the entire armored sealed door.

Although Alvin did not find the secret key and password in the vault, the information received by the spirit terminal showed that the two giant golems actually also had the function of useful secret keys.

It seems that such a heavy spare key cannot be taken away and used even if it is placed under the nose of a thief, not to mention that these two "keys" have fists and they can stand up and hit people!

Even if ordinary extraordinary people attack in groups, they will only be killed by the powerful giant golem's punches.

According to the information received later, under normal circumstances, these two golems should be stationed outside the armored door like door gods, but it is unknown what happened a thousand years ago that caused them to appear inside the vault "Lightless Abyss".

You couldn't have forgotten to bring your keys when you went out, right?

In short, after the order was given, the two giant golems immediately took heavy steps towards the gate.

Then, four beams of light were emitted from their gem-inlaid eyes, hitting the four key nodes hidden inside the sealing array at the same time. The unlocking formula contained in the beams immediately activated the relevant functions of the array.

The large number of luminous patterns covering the door were like countless ropes that came to life, automatically untying the complex knots entangled with each other and hiding themselves in the edge of the door frame.

Then, the tall giant golem held the door with his hands.

Boom boom boom, accompanied by a deafening roar.

The two golems lifted the heavy armored sealed door upwards as if they were carrying a mountain.

"Bad news."

The thinking module Embra, which was waiting outside, quickly flew to Ivan, but what came out of its mouth were not pleasant words.

"Due to years of disrepair, the city management system of Hades City has long been offline. Normally, through the remaining systems, we can barely get a general understanding of the city's internal conditions."

"But just two minutes and seventeen seconds ago, the early warning system suddenly indicated that part of the western part of the city had been damaged. The specific situation is currently unknown."

"Are there any garrison forces inside the city?" Alvin frowned, and immediately realized that it was likely that hybrid insects and beasts were taking action.

"Due to the intense war situation and the rejection of the Earth Drift Plan, most of the military units in Hades City were withdrawn a thousand years ago. The remaining security golems are unable to withstand truly powerful enemies."

Even the troops in the fortress were withdrawn, which shows how brutal the battle with the pure-colored Ultra Beasts was at the end of the Giant Kingdom. Although the latter were not truly living pure-colored Ultra Beasts, they were merely the residual pure-colored poison emanating from their corpses.

But it is, after all, a cosmic monster that can feed on stars. For planetary civilizations that have not yet broken out of the earth's surface, it is undoubtedly a destructive natural disaster that is as difficult to resist as a meteorite impact.

From this perspective, the performance of the Ancient Giant Kingdom can even be described as super-super-performance.

"The Earth's Drifting Fortress Plan?"

"If the pure-color pollution cannot be stopped from spreading further, the Kingdom may use this massive starship as a base to continuously move the fortress city of Abyss within the Earth's core, waging guerrilla warfare against the pure-color Ultra Beasts occupying the surface. The Earth's Core Drift Project is such a doomsday war plan."

"How exaggerated..." After commenting in amazement, Alvin refocused his attention on the problem he was facing.

Having said that, it's impossible to fight against truly powerful enemies. "Really powerful enemies" here probably only apply to the Giant Kingdom. If used against hybrid insect beasts, perhaps a few security golems would be enough?

Alvin immediately denied this idea. The conspiracy of the hybrid insect beast was still unknown, and it was highly likely that what he would have to face at that time would not be just a single insect beast.

Reason told him not to be too optimistic, so he did not intend to wait for the situation to deteriorate further and made a new decision immediately.

The two giant golems with hidden backup key functions cannot be moved easily, but those flexible bionic birds can be sent out for reconnaissance. Their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, and their mobility is also very considerable.

"Plug these bionic birds into your system and control them to fly over and find out what's going on as quickly as possible."

"clear."

Embla's female projection flashed several rays of light, and the mechanical bird, which originally only acted according to preset instructions, immediately became agile.

They spread their steel wings with edges as sharp as blades and flew quickly along the internal passage of the starship towards the upper exit on the top deck.

Alvin was not idle either. He remembered that Embra was the central thinking module of the third heritage management agency, and it contained the entire collection catalog of the "Lightless Abyss".

"Are there any weapons within the Lightless Abyss that can be used immediately?"

"I'm sorry, but most of the heritage that can be used as weapons was put into use thousands of years ago." The answer was not satisfactory, and then Embra said again.

"Can this ship be used for combat?" Alvin turned his attention to the enormous starship.

"I'm sorry, although the starship itself has been basically completed, due to the lack of eternal light to activate the ship's engine, the kingdom shelved the ship and the geocentric drifting fortress plan a thousand years ago. Even the ship's central thinking module has been dismantled." Good news may not come together, but bad news always comes one after another.

The Eternal Light obviously refers to the power of the King's Soul. Although Alvin has initially awakened his soul power, he is still a long way from the true King's Soul of Uranus.

Fortunately, what Embra said next made him see the light immediately.

"However, within the Sunless Abyss are stored some weapon blueprints related to the Titan legacy. If we can harness the power of Black Hammer Lemnos, perhaps we can forge them on the spot." After pondering for a moment, he asked again:

"In other words, we still have to find a way to officially activate the Black Hammer Lemnos." Having said that, if the Black Hammer can be activated, then we can just decompose the enemy into material fragments.

But considering that the last princess, who is also qualified to activate the Black Hammer, did not do so, there may be some hidden restrictions, and we must make plans for both scenarios.

"really."

"I understand." Alvin nodded, turned and walked onto the floating platform.

"Take me back to the entrance as quickly as possible."

"receive."

On the way back to the entrance, Alvin brought up another matter.

"Do you know how to get into the Leyline Webway Headquarters?"

"With your authority, you can enter directly."

Then, both he and Embra's projection fell into silence.

The waiting time always makes people restless, especially after witnessing the soul-stirring grand scene before.

Ivan knew he needed to adjust his mood, so he casually asked Embra:

"Among those weapon blueprints, which one is the most powerful?"

"The greatest power, do you mean pure destructive power?" Embra, the thinking module, seemed quite serious.

"of course."

"If you include all the blueprints that are theoretically feasible."

"Then, the weapon with the greatest destructive power will undoubtedly be that one."

The answer from the thinking module made Alvin look interested.

"Oh? Tell me more about it."

"Royal family's exclusive combat body."

Embra said a name in an extremely indifferent voice.

"Lord of the Dead—Abyss, the God of the Underworld."

Ivan's body froze, and another completely different term randomly popped up in his mind.

Giant God Soldier!

Chapter 157 Ultimate Production

At this moment, Alvin was driving a heavy motorcycle-type Sanwang, speeding on the way to the 'Earth Vein Network Headquarters'.

As the central thinking module of the Third Heritage Management Agency, Embrabin's main body could not leave the building. However, this highly skilled thinking module was linked to the Activation Lieutenant, allowing it to remotely transmit various information to Ivan.

At this moment, Embra is controlling the bionic bird to fly towards the western part of the city where the abnormality occurred.

After handing over the driving authority to Shanwang, Alvin took the time to think about what he had just heard.

He had long known that the giant had two bodies: an ordinary body for daily use and a large body.

Although the former are taller than ordinary humans, the latter is the real reason why giants are called "giants".

Large bodies have a size far exceeding that of ordinary people, and amazing strength that matches their size. They can easily accomplish many tasks that ordinary people must use heavy machinery to complete.

But then again, for the Giant Kingdom, large bodies may be specialized tools similar to heavy machinery.

Beyond strength and physique, large bodies also possess numerous quantitative advantages in terms of magic power reserves and spell casting. Individuals with relatively complete genetics, commonly known as second- and third-generation giants, often possess significant qualitative advantages as well.

As for the royal combat body mentioned by Embra, Alvin strongly suspected that it was not a large body used by ordinary giants, nor a military combat body that had undergone weaponization.

The first thing that came to his mind was the Titan's special agent named "Giant God Soldier" by Linde of the Central Empire!

Looking at the small crystal cube that had just been retrieved after returning to the Lightless Abyss, it was hard to imagine that such an inconspicuous crystal product actually stored a huge amount of compressed information using "light" as a carrier. Its essence was the entire blueprint of "Lord of the Dead - King of the Underworld, Abyss", referred to as "Pluto".

It was after browsing the blueprint that the Giant Kingdom had spent a thousand years to complete that Alvin finally realized what an exaggerated comprehensive system the so-called Titan proxy was.

Yes, even a giant warrior like the Golden Knight Disgrain, which seems to have a high degree of integrity, is actually just a small part of the entire agent system that appears in the macro world.

Of course, that is also a very important part. After all, it contains a rare treasure called "True Blood", but a truly complete Titan proxy also includes a set of special buildings that need to be arranged in the lepton space.

Special weapons repair plants, mechanical derivative production lines, research and development centers, space stabilization anchors, perpetual vacuum shrinkage-type infinite magic creation devices, and so on. These special buildings with different functions are similar to the pool of light that Alvin already owns, but they can form a complete system with each other, which is almost equivalent to putting an automated unmanned city with complex functions into the lepton space.

With this system in hand, a so-called Titan might be able to sustain a civilization on his own. This level of productivity is simply beyond imagination.

It was no wonder that such an excellent proxy like Disgulan could only exert limited power in his hands. Although the Golden Knight's strength was already very powerful in the modern system of extraordinary beings, it was completely different from the scene in his dream that could rival the celestial bodies.

Not only is the user's own growth limited, but the body or the proxy system itself is incomplete.

It's like an empty bullet shell without even any gunpowder inside, so it naturally cannot be compared with real live ammunition.

Even so, Alvin was still confused about many things.

Forget it, he doesn’t need to understand Titan’s technology so well for now, just use it first.

As long as he finds a way to use Black Hammer Lemnos, Alvin will be able to piece together a relatively complete Titan proxy system by combining the core components of Disgulan containing "true blood" with "Pluto" that only exists in the blueprint.

Considering that previous civilizations were able to propose modularity, it's only natural that similar concepts existed in Titan creations. Therefore, even with this rote patchwork, there wouldn't be any significant hardware conflicts.